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BEACH VIEW: Approximately 50 new apartments, including affordable and workforce housing,
will be built on this vacant property at 571 Revere St. – funded by a grant received last Thursday.
(Photo Courtesy of The Neighborhood Developers)
By Tara Vocino
A
collective grant effort will
allow a transit-oriented, affordable
housing development
to be built on a vacant property
on Revere Street this summer.
The Baker-Polito administration
and other agencies awarded
the grant last Thursday.
According to Rafael Mares,
executive director of The
Neighborhood Developers, his
company will be the project developer
while the city, through
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The grant will fund the
construction of 643 rental units
across nine developments in
other cities and towns; this development
at 571 Revere St. is
a 51-unit mixed-income project.
Construction is scheduled
to start in July 2019 with the
building expected to open in
the fall of 2020, according to
Mares.
“It will create 51 new one,
two- and three-bedroom
apartments on a vacant property,
of which 32 will be affordable
(restricted to households
below 60 percent of Area Median
Income) and 19 will be
workforce housing (restricted
to 120 percent of Area Median
Income),” Mares said.
The Massachusetts Department
of Housing and Community
Development is supporting
the project with federal
and state low-income housing
tax credits as well as subGRANT
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Mayor Brian Arrigo is shown reading to Paul Revere Innovative
School students during Read Across America Day in the
gymnasium last Friday morning. (Advocate photo by Tara Vocino)
By Tara Vocino
C
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ity Councillors, School
Committee members
and school administrators
were among the many
guest readers at National
Read Across America Day
on Friday. Calling it “their
favorite day of the year,”
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Schools Athletic Dept. to switch
back to GBL this summer
By Tara Vocino
ffective July 1, the Athletic
Department of the Revere
Public Schools will return to the
Greater Boston League (GBL) after
being in the Northeastern
Conference (NEC) since 2005.
Regional principals voted
11-1 to make the switch at a
conference meeting at Beverly
High School on Friday morning.
According to Athletic Director
Frank Shea, four schools
similar in size and competitiveness
were voted out of the NEC
last month, which contributed
to the switch. However, because
football starts late in the
year, that sport will remain in
the NEC for two seasons, according
to Shea.
“We don’t have any ill feelings
against the Northeastern Conference,”
Shea said. “It’s been a
great 14 years.”
Prior to making the move to
the NEC, Revere Athletics had
been in the GBL for more than
75 years, according to Shea.
Affecting 25 varsity teams,
Shea explained, the switch will
be a learning curve and it won’t
be perfect at first. But there are
advantages. Students will return
to school an hour earlier from
away games and won’t have to
travel as much to communities
such as Gloucester, Beverly, Marblehead
and Swampscott, with
the exception of some sports.
Shea went on to say that
Revere athletes will only play
twice against each school
and will have to find other
schools in the league to compete
against.
“Championships won’t mean
as much since the Northeastern
Conference is a big league,” Shea
said. “Most of our schedule was
already set.”
Tara Vocino may be reached at printjournalist1@gmail.com.
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